1991: Boss Hog – Musiktheater BAD, Hannover, Germany

1994: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – The Jon Stewart Show, New York City, NY, US

“You’re sitting at home right now, little half a loaf of fruitcake in the stomach wondering who’s the hottest band in New York right now? That’s what you’re wondering, who’s packing them into the clubs? Ladies and gentlemen we got the answer right here tonight performing Ditch from their album Orange, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.” – Jon Stewart

2011: Pussy Galore – Maxwell’s, Hoboken, NJ, US
w/ Yo La Tengo and Todd Barry

“First to take the stage at last night’s fourth of Yo La Tengo’s eight Hanukkah shows at Maxwell’s, reunited garage rock band Pussy Galore wasted no time testing the crowd’s enthusiasm for raging 80s punk, as Jon Spencer, Julie Cafritz, Kurt Wolf and Bob Bert opened their relentless forty minute fifteen song set with the antagonistic ‘You Look Like a Jew.’

A glammed up Spencer spit and sweated his way through, his upper lip curled and hanging on the microphone through every track, as Cafritz, dolled up like a hardened 50s bombshell, backed him up with a constant chorus of obscenity until, after closing the show with ‘Evil Eye’ and ending with Spencer’s final words of “so f*** you,” Cafritz smiled and wished the crowd a “happy Hanukkah and merry Christmas.”

Whether or not the attitude was all an act, there was one genuine moment of authentic attitude when an overeager fan stormed the stage to snatch Spencer’s set list, returning to the crowd only to have Spencer snatch it back. However, Spencer then stuck it in his yellow cotton tote and had a genuine smile on his face as he pulled up tape on his hands and knees and packed up his guitar while less greedy fans approached the stage just to say hello and thank him for the show.”

Photo / Text: Adam Robb / For The Jersey Journal

1991: Boss Hog – Vera, Groningen, Netherlands
Poster Design: Hein de Jong

2004: Russell Simins – FasterLouder.com.au: Russell Simins Talks Touring, Tinkering & Tex (PRESS, US)

2010: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Under The Radar: Interview (PRESS, NEW ZEALAND)

1985: Pussy Galore – University of Maryland, College Park, MD, US
*First Pussy Galore gig*

2009: V/A feat. Coldcut / Men Without Pants / Cat Power / Heavy Trash – Ten Years of Rock Hits: 1999 – 2009 – released in France

Photo: Pussy Galore – Feel Good About Your Body (7″, US)

2008: Boss Hog – The Cherry Blossom Clinic, WFMU, Jersey City, NJ, US

“man, boss hog is KILLING it. this is all I want for xmas!!” – Jason

Photo: Boss Hog – Monty, Antwerpen, Belgium (15 March 1996) by Gie Knaeps

1998: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Roseland Ballroom, New York City, NY, US
w/ Alex Chilton

“JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION AND ALEX CHILTON, Roseland, 239 West 52d Street, Manhattan, (212) 247-0200. Fans of New York’s favorite blues-belting skinny white hipster guy already know he can command a large stage, since Mr. Spencer and his band devastated the crowd at last year’s Tibet Freedom Festival. They should heat up this old ballroom to the boiling point. More unpredictable will be the opening set by Alex Chilton, who has experienced pop stardom and cult adulation but has grown accustomed to spinning out lost pop and rhythm-and-blues chestnuts for small audiences used to getting their shouted requests played. If he can make Roseland feel like Maxwell’s, the famously intimate club where he headlines (without the Blues Explosion) the next night, Mr. Chilton will have pulled off a miracle. The Roseland show is tomorrow night at 7:30; tickets are $16 in advance, $17.50 tomorrow. Alex Chilton plays Maxwell’s on Sunday night at 9; tickets are $12 (Powers).” – New York Times preview